howie’s halfpipe

Countries that have visited my blog so far this month!

Australia
USA
Canada
Japan
Great Britain
Russian Federation
Germany
Iceland
Oman
New Zealand
Philippines
India
Israel
Iran

“Rob and I watched bloody sunday last night. just me and Robert curled up having some bum and wine. well, rob didn’t have wine.”

This a quote from the blog of Chris and I just need to clarify where it says “bum” he is strictly talking about bum ice cream, you know the Cadbury bum, if you don’t know what I’m talking about scroll down and you will see a picture of bum!

Today I woke up at 12:40, I turned my phone on and got a message from Chris saying that he will meet me outside the RSL at 1pm so we can go to Gem’s 21st together. So I jumped out of bed slapped some clothes on, put some extra in my mouth and walked up to the RSL, I arrived at the RSL at 1pm.

Gem’s party was very bearable, I’m not a big party man but I coped just fine today, I sat around with Chris, David, Ryan and Jem. Jem needs a blog because she is the only one that didn’t get a link then….tisk tisk.
If you are confused Jemma and Gemma are 2 different people its not my bad spelling.

After the party we where going to go to Tom’s church but we left the party to late and wouldn’t have time to drive out to belrose so instead we came back here and Chris Jem and Ryan watched “Dr No” on dvd, I sat on toms computer capturing video footage from the uluru trip because I have to make the video by Saturday.

My blog went from having over 10 unique visits per day to just 6.4 in a space of 2 weeks. All I did was go away for 2 weeks and I lost half my audience.

the battle about women continues…………………………..

Mr James and myself seem to be having a little battle its fun.

Well waiting for the woman to get ready that’s ok, I spend my life sitting around anyway. So waiting a few extra hours is no fuss.
And things taking ages like walking places because you have to walk slowly arm in arm, well this also is not a problem for me seeing as I walk slowly everywhere, I’m never in a hurry, hurrying is too much effort and if you walk slower it means by the time you do make it the food court you really appreciate your food more.
And paying for myself and the lady, well due to women’s liberation and all this stuff about equality and stuff I would probably get slapped if I offered to pay, she would take it as some insult like as if the women isn’t perfectly capable of paying for herself, and anyways 2 meals at maccas is hardly expensive.

I liked this quote from James “You need to find a woman who will eat micro easy burgers and rice and dog. If you do…. go for it, you have my blessing”

I think James is onto a winner there, how good are microeasy cheeseburgers and rice and dog is a fine meal!

I might bleach my hear sometime this week, its time to bleach it again, seeing as the sideburns are gone I need a new image, well its not really new seeing as I bleach my hair every year but you know what I mean.
I’ll have to ask Kaia, she’s the bleaching expert.

I bought a laundry basket today, for aesthetic reasons I don’t think Jane likes all the dirty clothes on my floor, so now I can put them in a basket, its a big tall dark green basket. It has a lid too, but knowing me I will take the lid off then 5 minutes later I will accidentally step on it and brake it in half, I have a habit of stepping in things in my room and breaking them.

There where 3 guys in a pub, an Englishman, an American and an Aussie. They where sitting at the bar together chatting about this and that, when one of them turned to the others and said “that man over there looks like Jesus” the other 2 men turned around and looked across at the man, who was of medium build with long brown hair and a beard. They agreed “he does look like Jesus” and “your right I think it is Jesus”.
So the Englishman called the bar tender across and said “go give that man over there that looks like Jesus a Squash” so the bar tender did and the man looked very grateful.
Then the American man called the bar tender across and said “go give that man an orange juice” so the bar tender did.
Last but not least the Aussie called the bar tender across and said “mate go give that bloke a VB” so the bar tender did.
After the man who looked like Jesus had finished all three drinks he came across to the 3 men to thank them, and he put out his hand to shake the Englishman’s hand first as soon as their hands touched the Englishman starting shouting “you really are Jesus, my back, my back it’s not sore any more, Oh thankyou Jesus”
The American and the Aussie where shocked!
Next Jesus came to shake the American’s hand and when there hands touched the American shouted “Oh thankyou Jesus my sore leg its healed, You really are Jesus”
Jesus began to approach the Aussie Guy but the Aussie guy stepped back, and every step Jesus took towards the Aussie, the Aussie would take 2 steps back, until finally the Aussie said “Jesus don’t touch me, I’m on compo!”

I just watched “bloody Sunday” on dvd with Chris, it was a good film I liked it. I really enjoy documentary style films they are cool, I think it’s because they seem unrehearsed. That’s one thing I don’t like about film making is that you can keep trying and trying to get it right until you finally do or the director says that one yes we will use that one.
That’s why I don’t really want to get into film production, there isn’t as much sense of achievement and satisfaction, I mean sure we got it right but it took 32 takes.
Where as documentaries and live television is the opposite, you only get one chance to get it right and if the whole team isn’t ready and doing the right thing then that’s bad luck you can’t do it again. Live is how I like it, the adrenaline and angst, you have to be right you can’t stuff up, this is it, this is it.
I do like a good Hollywood film too.
If someone offered me a job making films I would say ‘yes’, but if someone offered me a job making live television I would say ‘wahoooooooooo’

today is my 127th day without coke.

I was a bit lost one day a few years ago and I wrote this song, Chris was trying to put it to music the other day.

GREEN
By Robert Howie

I can’t remember being happy, Or ever being sad,
I don’t feel down and I’m not on a high
No I cant explain my head.
I try to work out what is going on inside my life
I think it’s a colour I feel,
Yeah neither black nor white

But I don’t wanna feel green no more………

Well there it is, I cant have been all that upset or depressed or something because I never get really sad, it just doesn’t happen, I mean I get sad but not really sad. But I thought it was blog worthy, I might put up another song now too, this one is me trying to be soppy, I was in a good mood when I wrote this one, I just wanted to pretend to have lost someone. And it goes a little something like this:

WHY DID YOU GO

Do you remember the good and the bad,
Do you remember the bright and the sad
All your dreams and all your fears
Those big bright smiles and those salty tears

And why did you go.

Soppy inst it ?

A strange thing happened to me today.
Before I was going to rough edges I knew there was something in Hornsby that I wanted to do, so I left earlier than I would normally leave on a Friday and walked up to Hornsby. One of the things I had planned to do was bank my cheque and I did that, but there was something much more important than that which I needed to do. I found myself standing at the fountain trying to think what it was that I was supposed to be doing, I had no idea so I went to the station and got on the train and went o rough edges.

I still can’t remember what it was!

Jane asked me to do the sweeping on Tuesday and I didn’t do it on Tuesday then I forgot and then Jane reminded me and then I forgot and now Jane is upset at me because I didn’t do it. Sorry Jane, I really am sorry.

I think Sony should install a memory stick drive in the side of my head, then when people want me to do stuff they just type it into their computers and put it on memory stick, then walk up beside me and shove the stick in my head.

Here i am at Rough Edges again, i like coming here its fun.
The cleaners came today but they didn’t clean my room because i managed to make it extremely messy again in a very short amount of time.

Now onto the subject of women, with tom saying that i haven’t talked about women on my blog for a while. It seems others have been but i have been falling behind. Now james on the other hand there isn’t many post on his blog where he isn’t talking about the ladies.
James said that having a woman wouldn’t solve all of ones problems, i was having a think about this comment and then o thought to my self, what problems do i have? The answer i came up with was, I’m single!. now if me being a single was a problem that would mean that having a woman would solve that problem.
What other problems do i have, well i’m hungry, and having a woman would also fix this problem she could drive me to maccas.
surely i must have more problems, lets see.
I cant see very well! that is a problem, and having a woman would fix this because she could guide me.
I never get to go to the food court with girls, having a woman would fix this problem.
I cant talk about relationships when it is brought up in conversation with others, having a woman would solve this problem.

In conclusion i would like to say that having a woman solves all the worlds problems.

P.S. i don’t really think that at all, also i’m not really that desperate for a woman, me and my problems are coping just fine, although if a woman popped up i would not complain. Jane thinks i try to make people think that other people are making me do something i don’t want to do. Bloody social workers, i blame jane for making me say this right now, its her fault i have to write about something i don’t want to write about…

oh…maybe she is right

Absolutely poor effort! Sorry I haven’t written in my blog much the last 2 days, I just haven’t , I don’t really have an excuse just lazy I guess.

Yesterday I got up bright and early and went off to the doctor, my appointment was at midday, I finally got in to see him at 1pm, I spent an hour in the waiting room reading ‘better homes and gardens’ magazine, there are some really nice country stile bench tops available these days! I also picked up some handy storage ideas, unfortunately the free rose stencil seemed to be missing, otherwise I could have painted toe waiting room and given it a nice autumn feel.

After the doctor I went beck to Hornsby and farted around in the fusion office, getting uluru photos and stuff and I went up to jacks with Steve to look for my folder, I also went to the bank to enquire about starting a business account.
After that I met kaia and we saw “2 fast 2 Furious”. I thought it was crap, infact I would go as far as to say that it wasn’t a though that infact it was just a crap film, I didn’t even need to think it!
Then last night I watched “catch me if you can’ on dvd.

Today I went to campsie fusion, I’m still not all that sure why they wanted me to go down there, I think they all just wanted me to see me and here my wonderful spontaneous quick witted humour. I’m extremely modest!
It was good I saw matt and Liz and haylee and Karen I had a good chat with Karen. I think I can add her to my list of mothers, I have so many. After campsie I came home, then eventually went back up to westfield and saw “Bruce almighty” it was a funny film, it made me laugh.

and tomorrow I have rough edges.

tom said tonight I haven’t talked about women in my blog for ages, (note to self: talk about women in blog tomorrow)

I just had a microeasy cheeseburger

THINGS

I think that dessert should be bigger than main course, because dessert is the most important part of a meal, not main course. You always have this large plate of dinner then a crappy little side dish of dessert.

I think speed humps should be optional, You still have the speed bump in the middle of the road, but also a little curvy road to the side of the bump, that way you still have to slow down but you don’t have get that stupid speed bump feeling.

I think cityrail should have a frequent travellers program

I think people should post more letters

I think fusion should have less meetings

I think there needs to be a tunnel in Hornsby

I think crap films shouldn’t be made

I think people in pornography and advertisements should wear more clothes

I think Crowded House should get back together

I don’t really think all that much, I just wanted to fill in some space on my blog.

I cant get rid of the stupid second link to my guestbook on the left…..stupid blogger

steve bevis needs more marketing

sorry david, but i wrote my post about stopping talking about toms love life without reading your blog, infact i only saw your post today…sorry

Tom gave away the recipe to “Rice and Dog” on his blog so I think I will tell you all about another meal that tom and I often cook here in our bachelor pad!

“The Microeasy”

Ingredients:

1 Microeasy Cheeseburger (found in the frozen food section of an good supermarket)
1 600ml Coke, Fanta or Sprite

Method:

1. Place the 600ml beverage in the fridge to cool.
2. Open one end of the microeasy box and remove burger from box.
3. Keep burger in paper packaging and place on top of microeasy box.
4. Place microeasy box and burger in the centre of microwave.
5 Cook for 2 minutes on high or until golden brown.

* CAUTION * Burger may be hot after removing from microwave.

Serve:

Place burger on plate and remove 600ml beverage from fridge, sit down relax and enjoy your meal.

Serves one

I have made the executive decision to not talk about Tommy and his crush or non-crush, I have had my fun, if he does like a girl good on him and if he doesn’t good on him.

by reading toms blog I think he is in love with someone, its about time too, that boy needs a good woman, befroe he gets to obsessive compulsive and anti social.
Good on ya tommy!

Web Stat is down so I don’t know how popular I am, Well of course I’m popular but maybe today more than usual!